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See how you can overwrite the text in the default placeholders by adding custom prompt text. You can use custom prompt text to describe or specify what you want people using your template to enter into various text placeholders.

Download new SmartArt graphic layouts, including Picture Organization Chart, Interconnected Rings, and Tabbed Arc.

If you're new to PowerPoint 2007 and just want to pick up the basics, this demo will get you started fast. You'll see how to create your own slides for a show and add headings, bulleted lists, and pictures. And see how the new Preview feature helps you choose theme colors and background design, minimizing the guesswork and giving you a polished result.

Although pattern fills have been removed from PowerPoint 2007, you can use this workaround from a PowerPoint MVP to get the look that you want.

Learn how to create a photo album keepsake to commemorate your winter holiday event! This is a great gift idea for those who participated in the event.

See how to find, download, and install custom fonts to use with your Office programs.

Learn the essentials for sharing PowerPoint 2007 files between a computer running Windows and an Apple Macintosh. Geetesh Bajaj, PowerPoint MVP and site manager for Indezine shows you how.

See how you can animate turning a grayscale picture into a color picture.

Watch a short video on how you can use effects in PowerPoint to create a 3-D keyboard.

Do you want your audience to take away more from your presentations? In this article, Robert Lane and Dr. Stephen Kosslyn describe how you can use brain research to make your PowerPoint presentations more effective. You can also increase how well your audience remembers your message by using meaningful visual aids or cues.

In this article, Microsoft MVP Glenna Shaw discusses ways that you can scroll through a large image or document on a PowerPoint slide, moving forward or backward or stopping dynamically. Depending on the object that you inserted into your presentation there are a number of ways to accomplish this effect, including using add-ins or features in PowerPoint.

What if your presentation was supposed to last an hour but your time slot was reduced to only 20 minutes? What would you do? Now imagine that next time this happens to you, you’re ready for it. You can completely restructure your slide sequence on the spot, without making any changes to the actual PowerPoint slides themselves, because you’ve added navigation elements to your slide shows. In other words, you can instantly adjust to accommodate any circumstance, any audience question, any threat or opportunity instantly. This article by Robert Lane and Chantal Bosse helps you discover how you can use the Seven Key Principles for creating a visually interesting and flexible presentation to tailor your delivery to any circumstance.

You want your presentation to convey key points to your audience. The new 3-D effects in PowerPoint 2007 give you dozens of ways to create graphic effects that pop off the slide and highlight the information you want to be remembered. Watch the demo to see how to do this with slides. Similar options are available in Excel 2007, Outlook 2007, and Word 2007.

This article shows you how you can manually wrap text around any object, such as a table, picture, shape, chart, SmartArt graphic, and more in PowerPoint 2007.

Are you a parent of children who play sports? Are you a coach or the designated "team mom"? Most importantly, if you are the person who plans the end-of-season parties and orders the player and coach trophies, you might find this article helpful.

Take the latest Microsoft Office programs out for a spin in this quick, easy-to-use, browser-based trial experience.

SmartArt graphics add color, shape, and emphasis to your text and data, and they're a snap to use. You can easily try out a variety of SmartArt graphics to see which one works best for getting your point across. Watch the demo to see how easy it is to add dimension and impact to your text.

If you prefer to use the keyboard instead of the mouse, the programs that use the Ribbon, which is part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface in the 2007 Microsoft Office system provide keyboard shortcuts that enable you to quickly perform tasks without reaching for the mouse

To run a presentation on a computer on which Microsoft Office PowerPoint is not installed, or to distribute a self-contained presentation to an audience that might not have PowerPoint installed, use Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer.

Watch this demo to get familiar with the new design, and to see for yourself that you won't have to learn PowerPoint all over again.